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Hey guys...new around here...had a couple of questions. I'mthinking about buying a2000 4x4 blazer. Was just wondering one of the flip screen dvd players will fit in place of the stock stereo. Would i have to make any mods to get it in there?? Or would it be so nice to just slide right in?? I really like the look of the blazers... I'm also interested in lowering it. I'm just trying to see what kind of money i'm gonna be spending after the initial purchase.. so any input would be greatly appreciated. Thanks guys.

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yes, a flip out dvd will work fine. read my sticky here

and instructions here

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I hope they do because i'm lookin' to get a flip out Pioneer monitor soon.

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sweet!! This helps in my decision to buy or not.. thanks!

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It will fit no problem. Off the top of my head, I know that i have put one in a 86, my 87, a 2000 and a 2004. you are good. just have to break off the little plastic ring in the dash. you will see it as soon as you pull the old radio out! (just for depth issues.)

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No issues with the screen blocking the vents? That's pretty swanky...

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No, it will def block the vents!

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dang, lol.... kinda sucks for winter...

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Use your floor vents on high then, or since you can close the vents in the center, do that and use the other 2.

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Nah, I'll just rig up some sort of fancy bracker, and have just the screen there, or something, and put the deck itself down where I'd normally have the ashtray... at -45, you want as much heat blowing as possible, lol

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Yeah I feel you on that one with the cold. It gets to -20 to -30 here pretty often and has gotten down to -75 with windchill since I have gone to school up here and you definately want as much heat as possible.

I am wondering how much room you would have behind the HVAC controls if you cut out that plastic, maybe you could do a radio/HVAC switch. I think it would be way harder in the blazer but I know it was fairly simple on my Taurus SHO. I was planning on doing that but then the car got totaled so I never did it.

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I'm fairly sure there's room where the cig. lighter is... As there's no actual ashtray there, anymore...

For me, reaching the stereo isn't as big of an issue, since I'd only be touching it for volume, most times, lol. Yay for MP3 players...

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Good point, i forget how cold it gets since i dont live in the northland anymore. Worst it get here is 25, LOL. That would be pretty spiffy monitor setupthough, actually i think they have a few monitors that are almost the same size as 1.5 din that would sit there just nicely.

Actually what ive been looking at is a touch screen lcd for a car pc that i plan on riggin up in dale one of these years. Ideally i would have it be my entire stereo for the truck controlling the radio with a tuner, mp3's via usb and solid state hard drives, sirius radio through an adapter i found once, dvd's through aslot loaddvd drive that i would putwheretheash tray is,and have it all controlled via a program called media portal or through window xp mce. Only issue with it is, im broke as a joke and i need to figure out how to do it to make it look niceand to make it durable.